College Completion Rates Edging Upward
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DECEMBER 4, 2024
Comparisons are available across states, gender, race/ethnicity and age as well as by year dating back to 2007.
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Charitable Giving to U.S. Higher Education Institutions Rises 3% Despite Economic Challenges
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MARCH 20, 2025
Since 2007, foundations have contributed the largest share, with 42.5 The survey highlights a significant shift in giving patterns over the past three decades. Thirty years ago, alumni provided 27.6 percent of all giving to colleges and universities.
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University of Phoenix Tribal Operations Team Offers Targeted Support for Indigenous and Tribal Students
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NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Led by Patrick Horning, the university’s National Tribal Strategic Alliance Executive, the team plays a critical role in supporting Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students.
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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College
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MARCH 6, 2025
Additionally, she is the author of Being Black, Teaching Black: Politics and Pedagogy in Religious Studies (Abingdon, 2008), Black Church Studies: An Introduction (Abingdon, 2007) and Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality (Pilgrim Press, 2001).
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CARLTON SPELLMAN
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OCTOBER 26, 2023
Marine Corps from 1984 until 2007. Spellman served as vice chancellor for business and finance at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. The Saint Leo University graduate served in the U.S.
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Dr. Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Pioneering Theoretical Physicist Bridges Mathematical Worlds
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MARCH 27, 2025
Gates often wishes his father, who passed away in 2007, could have been there to witness him receiving the National Medal of Science from the nations first Black president. One of his earliest memories of his mother, who died when Gates was young, is when she took him to see Spaceways, a science fiction movie, when he was four.
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Kenyon College President Dr. Sean Decatur to Depart for American Museum of Natural History
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DECEMBER 6, 2022
Decatur has been on the pages of Diverse across the years, and was recognized by the publication in 2007 as an Emerging Scholar. . And Decatur will be available through March 2023 to support the transition.
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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
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OCTOBER 20, 2022
Describing her as “a national treasure,” the National Science Board selected Jackson as its 2007 recipient of the prestigious Vannevar Bush Award for “a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education, and senior statesman-like contributions to public policy.”
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Study: Outcomes of Students in Policy Debate Programs Linked to ELA Improvements and Postsecondary Enrollment
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OCTOBER 25, 2023
The study – published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) – examined data of students in Boston Public Schools during the 2007–08 to 2017–18 school years, of which 3,515 took part in the Boston Debate League.
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Alabama’s Coach Saban Retires with Historic Seven National Titles
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JANUARY 10, 2024
Saban is credited with restoring the Crimson Tide football program once ruled by Paul “Bear” Bryant to the top of NCAA football after taking over in 2007. We always tried to do it the right way.” Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne called Saban “one of the greatest coaches of all time, in any sport.”
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Bazan Named Union College's Next President
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MARCH 20, 2024
As vice president of Student Life at La Sierra University from 2007 to 2021, she led 10 departments ranging from athletics and counseling to campus security and spiritual life.
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Testy Appointed to Lead the Association of American Law Schools
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JANUARY 10, 2024
In addition to her service as AALS President, Testy served as a member of the AALS Executive Committee from 2012 to 2017 and on the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers and Students from 2007 to 2009. She also chaired the planning committee for the AALS Workshop for New Law School Teachers in 2010.
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Dr. Mildred Garcia
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OCTOBER 20, 2022
Previously, García served as president of CSU Dominguez Hills beginning in 2007, where she was the eleventh female president — and first Latina president — in the California State University system. Mildred García was appointed as the seventh president of California State University, Fullerton last June.
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UW-La Crosse Chancellor Dr. Joe Gow Fired After Adult Videos of Him and Wife Discovered
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DECEMBER 28, 2023
Gow has served as UW-La Crosse chancellor since 2007. The books don't mention La Crosse, Wisconsin, or university work, but do refer to Gow and Wilson as “executives at two of the better-known organizations” who “couldn’t be more entrenched in the local establishment.”
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Transfer Students Need Support from Both Two and Four Year Institutions
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APRIL 25, 2024
In this cohort, only 16% earned a bachelor’s degree — that’s just two percentage points higher than the previous cohort studied, which entered college in 2007.
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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball
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OCTOBER 31, 2023
Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s He is also a curator of ¡Pleibol!
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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education
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APRIL 11, 2024
A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr. Peniel Joseph (“Interpreting African-American Life and History,” Jan. 11, 2007), has now published his seventh book and moved into administration at The University of Texas at Austin. White House Honoree, Jan. The most recent 2024 Emerging Scholars cohort now includes 15 up-and-coming academicians.
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Single Stop Announces Record-Breaking $698 Million of Benefits Unlocked by 116,700 Individuals in FY24
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JANUARY 22, 2025
About Single Stop A nonprofit organization founded in 2007, Single Stops mission is to equip others to build pathways to an economically sustainable future by leveraging partnerships and technology to connect people to valuable resources. More information will be available throughout the year at [link].
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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Additionally, their purchasing power of $3.4 trillion in 2021 comes with 4.7% annual growth, while non-Latinos experienced only 1.9%. This is all to say that the economic impact of the U.S. Latino population is not negligible. And as the U.S.
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AAUP Launches Investigation of Hamline
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JANUARY 23, 2023
It quoted from a 2007 AAUP report on freedom in the classroom, stating that “ideas that are germane to a subject under discussion in a classroom cannot be censored because a student with particular religious or political beliefs might be offended.
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Student Affairs Professionals Gather to Discuss Future of the Profession
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APRIL 4, 2023
Fortunately, I have an ability to foster a culture of care and concern.
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Walden University Settles in False Advertising and 'Reverse Red-Lining' Lawsuit
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APRIL 2, 2024
The class of people included in this case are all Black students who were enrolled in Walden’s DBA program from 2007 to 2017 and all female students enrolled in the program in the same time period who had received student loans, according to Ramchandani. “In
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High Impact Cultural Competence (HICC) Training: A Feasible Solution to Micro-incivilities Directed Toward Young Faculty and Staff of Color in Higher Education
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Jean, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Sociology at North Park University, and I are suggesting training in High Impact Cultural Competency (HICC) (Vaughn, 2007) as a potential solution. “We
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JSTOR's Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The initiative – it started in 2007 per the request from the Bard College’s Prison Initiative (BPI) for an offline version of JSTOR – began with the creation of its first offline index, designed to work in a “minimal tech environment.” She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative.
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The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007
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JUNE 7, 2022
Learn more about The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 ("CCRAA" or the "Act"), which was enacted to make college more affordable for low- and moderate-income students by phasing in increases in government grants.
Y’all Not Tired of Hating on Black Women? When Misogynoir Meets Double-Standards
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APRIL 4, 2023
This is eerily reminiscent of Don Imus’ 2007 racist comments when he described the predominantly Black Rutgers women’s basketball team as “rough girls”, “hardcore ho’s” and “nappy-headed hoes ”. This is all coded, racist language.
Dr. Erika A. Taylor
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OCTOBER 22, 2022
Title: Associate Professor of Chemistry; Director of McNair Program, Wesleyan University Taylor, associate professor of chemistry, environmental studies and integrative sciences, joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2007. She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with honors from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a Ph.D.
Meet Some of this Year's MacArthur Fellows
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OCTOBER 9, 2023
Since joining the field in about 2007, I felt that there are certain aspects of the world and its problems that were largely neglected. And a lot of these are social issues,” said Mackey, whose technological work has focused on machine learning for use in fields such as climate, weather, and medicine.
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Despite Probation, Saint Augustine's University is Looking Forward
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JANUARY 9, 2023
His institution was placed on probation shortly before his arrival in late March 2007. “I Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, an HBCU in Dallas, Texas, said he knows the pressures of probation well. I don’t wish probation on anyone,” said Sorrell. “It
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At University of Hawai’i at M?noa, Native Hawaiian Representation is Growing
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DECEMBER 1, 2022
noa’s Native Hawaiian population has grown tremendously since the 1990s, and doubled between 2007 and 2020, thanks to deliberate efforts to recruit and retain these students, said Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa. Dr. Willy Kauai, director of Native Hawaiian student services at UH M?noa.
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Jacqie McWilliams
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OCTOBER 23, 2022
McWilliams spent nine years at the NCAA, managing NCAA championships, to include serving as director of the Division I women’s basketball tournament from 2006-2009 and the Division I men’s basketball tournament from 2007-2012.
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Supporting LGBTQ+ Students as they Work to Achieve Professional and Economic Mobility
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NOVEMBER 2, 2022
In 2007, it became the first school in Kentucky to add gender identity to its non-discrimination policy. For instance, the University of Louisville has been recognized as one of the best institutions for LGBTQ+ students by being named a 2022 Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Campus by Campus Pride.
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Seal of Excelencia 2024
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NOVEMBER 5, 2024
By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. California State University, San Bernardino Over the years, as enrollment of Latinx students at California State University, San Bernadino (CSUSB) grew, the university implemented programs to serve student needs.
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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options
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APRIL 8, 2024
That led to the 2007 opening of Rancourt Hall, which added 152 beds. With housing requests growing in the late 1990s/early 2000s, double rooms became triples, and half the single rooms became doubles to the point where it wasn’t sustainable. The college also leases a motel, which is called Mustang Hall, with 126 beds.
Lifting As They Climb
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FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Tate IV, the current president of Louisiana State University. At the time, Tate was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St.
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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education
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OCTOBER 20, 2023
After AT&T and Southern Bell merged, HISPA leadership decided to keep the group intact and in 2007 voted to become the independent nonprofit organization it is today. Changes to the structure took place in the mid-2000s, making HISPA the name and allowing non-AT&T members to participate in outreach activities.
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Smart Aid, Real Impact: Peddie’s Success with SSS
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APRIL 1, 2025
Takeaway #1: A Process Rooted in Empathy and Integrity Builds Trust Peter Park, Director of Financial Aid and Associate Director of Admissions at Peddieand a proud 2007 alumnusknows the power of financial aid on a personal level. As the child of Korean immigrants, Parks own path to Peddie was made possible by financial support.
ED: $42 Billion in Approved Public Service Loan Forgiveness for More Than 615,000 Borrowers
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MAY 9, 2023
The US Department of Education has announced that over 615,000 borrowers have had their loans forgiven under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, with a total of $4.2 billion in loan forgiveness approved as of October 2021.
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Boldly Future Forward
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AUGUST 9, 2024
The nurturing she received as a student motivated her to pursue a career in science and fueled her desire to return to the university in 2007 and give the same to students. A&T’s 1890 Center of Excellence for Student Success and Workforce Development (SSWD), earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at N.C.
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Pride in the Halls
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APRIL 16, 2024
When Hall was an undergraduate at Bowie State University (2007–12), an HBCU in Maryland, it was a “resource desert” for LGBTQ students. Guttman recently institutionalized its Lavender Graduation, a pre-graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students which the president, provost, and members of the faculty attend.
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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion
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APRIL 9, 2023
Terry Calaway, who was serving as president of CAC at the time, to enroll in the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin. There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D. He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013.
Answering the Call
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FEBRUARY 17, 2023
When she was the founding pharmacist at the Howard University Hospital Diabetes Treatment Center (2007–17) Akiyode worked with endocrinologists, nurses and dieticians. They have experiential rotations. They have hands-on opportunities to talk to patients in the clinic.” Students and pharmacy residents observed her with patients.
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Single Stop Announces Expansion of its Benefit Screener Through Addition of LIHEAP Benefit
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NOVEMBER 8, 2023
About Single Stop A nonprofit organization founded in 2007, Single Stop’s mission is to equip others to build pathways to an economically sustainable future by leveraging partnerships and technology to connect people to valuable resources.
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Upswing and Single Stop Announce Partnership to Empower Marginalized Students
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JANUARY 29, 2025
About Single Stop A nonprofit organization founded in 2007, Single Stops mission is to equip others to build pathways to an economically sustainable future by leveraging partnerships and technology to connect people to valuable resources. For more information, visit [link] or schedule a demo to learn more.
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